September 2017 - nexa - server-nexa.polito.it

IFRI: "Chine : anciennes méthodes , et nouvelles technologies au service du Parti"

by J.C. DE MARTIN

*Chine : anciennes méthodes et nouvelles technologies au service du Parti** * Xi Jinping vers la surveillance 2.0 / //Consolidation idéologique, renforcement des moyens de contrôle social, poursuite de la vaste campagne anticorruption : trois moyens de pérenniser le système politique pour éviter une dérive « à la soviétique ». À partir de ces orientations, le président chinois devrait voir son pouvoir confirmé par le prochain congrès du Parti communiste chinois. /Article issu du Ramses 2018, publication annuelle de l’Ifri sur les grands enjeux internationaux. Au cours de l’année écoulée, le président Xi Jinping a continué à renforcer le monopole du Parti communiste chinois (PCC), ainsi que son propre pouvoir, avec vigueur et efficacité. Le processus est en cours depuis son arrivée à la tête du parti en 2012, et ses résultats sont désormais visibles dans un grand nombre de secteurs (économie, médias, internet, éducation). Cette année, Xi Jinping prépare le XIXe Congrès du Parti, qui devrait confirmer sa position. / /[…] Continua qui: https://medium.com/@IFRI_/chine-anciennes-m%C3%A9thodes-et-nouvelles-techno… / /

Sept. 22, 2017

Passwords For 540,000 Car Tracking Devices Leaked Online

by Alberto Cammozzo

<http://thehackernews.com/2017/09/hacker-track-car.html> Another day, another news about a data breach, though this is something disconcerting. Login credentials of more than half a million records belonging to vehicle tracking device company SVR Tracking have leaked online, potentially exposing the personal data and vehicle details of drivers and businesses using its service. Just two days ago, Viacom was found exposing the keys to its kingdom <http://thehackernews.com/2017/09/viacom-amazon-server.html> on an unsecured Amazon S3 server, and this data breach is yet another example of storing sensitive data on a misconfigured cloud server. The Kromtech Security Center was first to discover <https://mackeepersecurity.com/post/auto-tracking-company-leaks-hundreds-of-…> a wide-open, public-facing misconfigured Amazon Web Server (AWS) S3 cloud storage bucket containing a cache belonging to SVR that was left publicly accessible for an unknown period. Stands for Stolen Vehicle Records, the SVR Tracking service allows its customers to track their vehicles in real time by attaching a physical tracking device to vehicles in a discreet location, so their customers can monitor and recover them in case their vehicles are stolen. The leaked cache contained details of roughly 540,000 SVR accounts, including email addresses and passwords, as well as users' vehicle data, like VIN (vehicle identification number), IMEI numbers of GPS devices. Since the leaked passwords were stored using SHA-1, a 20-years-old weak cryptographic hash function that was designed by the US National Security Agency (NSA), which can be cracked with ease. The leaked database also exposed 339 logs that contained photographs and data about vehicle status and maintenance records, along with a document with information on the 427 dealerships that use SVR's tracking services. Interestingly, the exposed database also contained information where exactly in the car the physical tracking unit was hidden. According to Kromtech, the total number of devices exposed "could be much larger given the fact that many of the resellers or clients had large numbers of devices for tracking." Since SVR's car tracking device monitors a vehicle everywhere for the past 120 days, anyone with access to SVR users' login credentials could both track a vehicle in real time and create a detailed log of every location the vehicle has visited using any internet connected device like a desktop, laptop, mobile phone or tablet. [...]

Sept. 22, 2017

"The EU Suppressed a 300-Page Study That Found Piracy Doesn’t Harm Sales"

by J.C. DE MARTIN

*The EU Suppressed a 300-Page Study That Found Piracy Doesn’t Harm Sales** * Jennings Brown Yesterday 3:10pm The European Commission paid €360,000 (about $428,000) for a study on how piracy impacts the sales of copyrighted music, books, video games, and movies. But the EU never shared the report—possibly because it determined that there is no evidence that piracy is a major problem. The Dutch firm Ecory was commissioned to research the impact of piracy for several months, eventually submitting a 304-page report to the EU in May 2015. The report concluded that: “In general, the results do not show robust statistical evidence of displacement of sales by online copyright infringements. That does not necessarily mean that piracy has no effect but only that the statistical analysis does not prove with sufficient reliability that there is an effect.” The report found that illegal downloads and streams can actually boost legal sales of games, according to the report. The only negative link the report found was with major blockbuster films:“The results show a displacement rate of 40 percent which means that for every ten recent top films watched illegally, four fewer films are consumed legally.” […] Continua qui: https://gizmodo.com/the-eu-suppressed-a-300-page-study-that-found-piracy-do…

Sept. 22, 2017

You Are the Product

by Alberto Cammozzo

Bella sintesi da una rassegna di tre libri. Interessante. <https://www.lrb.co.uk/v39/n16/john-lanchester/you-are-the-product> At the end of June, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook had hit a new level: two billion monthly active users. That number, the company’s preferred ‘metric’ when measuring its own size, means two billion different people used Facebook in the preceding month. It is hard to grasp just how extraordinary that is. Bear in mind that thefacebook – its original name – was launched exclusively for Harvard students in 2004. No human enterprise, no new technology or utility or service, has ever been adopted so widely so quickly. The speed of uptake far exceeds that of the internet itself, let alone ancient technologies such as television or cinema or radio. Also amazing: as Facebook has grown, its users’ reliance on it has also grown. The increase in numbers is not, as one might expect, accompanied by a lower level of engagement. More does not mean worse – or worse, at least, from Facebook’s point of view. On the contrary. In the far distant days of October 2012, when Facebook hit one billion users, 55 per cent of them were using it every day. At two billion, 66 per cent are. Its user base is growing at 18 per cent a year – which you’d have thought impossible for a business already so enormous. Facebook’s biggest rival for logged-in users is YouTube, owned by its deadly rival Alphabet (the company formerly known as Google), in second place with 1.5 billion monthly users. Three of the next four biggest apps, or services, or whatever one wants to call them, are WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram, with 1.2 billion, 1.2 billion, and 700 million users respectively (the Chinese app WeChat is the other one, with 889 million). Those three entities have something in common: they are all owned by Facebook. No wonder the company is the fifth most valuable in the world, with a market capitalisation of $445 billion. Zuckerberg’s news about Facebook’s size came with an announcement which may or may not prove to be significant. He said that the company was changing its ‘mission statement’, its version of the canting pieties beloved of corporate America. Facebook’s mission used to be ‘making the world more open and connected’. A non-Facebooker reading that is likely to ask: why? Connection is presented as an end in itself, an inherently and automatically good thing. Is it, though? Flaubert was sceptical about trains because he thought (in Julian Barnes’s paraphrase) that ‘the railway would merely permit more people to move about, meet and be stupid.’ You don’t have to be as misanthropic as Flaubert to wonder if something similar isn’t true about connecting people on Facebook. For instance, Facebook is generally agreed to have played a big, perhaps even a crucial, role in the election of Donald Trump. The benefit to humanity is not clear. This thought, or something like it, seems to have occurred to Zuckerberg, because the new mission statement spells out a reason for all this connectedness. It says that the new mission is to ‘give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together’. [...]

Sept. 22, 2017

Doctorow: "Boring, complex and important: a recipe for the web's dire future"

by J.C. DE MARTIN

*Boring, complex and important: a recipe for the web's dire future* /The Electronic Frontier Foundation has resigned from the W3C, the body responsible for governance of web standards. Cory Doctorow explains why/ By Cory Doctorow Thursday 21 September 2017 There is nothing more deadly than a fight that is boring, complicated and important. This toxic trio lies at the heart of disasters as wide-ranging as climate change, the 2008 financial crisis, and now, a sea-change in the very nature of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the most prominent force in the creation and maintenance of "open standards" for the web. Standards are boring, complicated and important. Reasonable people can debate at length the optimal gauge for a railroad track or voltage for a mains socket, but in the absence of an agreement at the end, your trains will go off the rails as your kettle will burst into flames. Every W3C standard until 2017 formalised some technological means of giving users control over their computers, from the power to display a certain kind of image format to the power to render complicated web-pages in browsers. This week, the W3C published a first-of-its-kind recommendation titled Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) that does just the opposite. It enables media companies from Netflix to the BBC to remotely control your computer while you are enjoying copyrighted works, preventing you from (for example) saving a programme for later, without regard to whether you have the legal right to do so. […] Continua qui: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/w3c-eff-open-standards-web-cory-doctorow

Sept. 22, 2017

Video "intelligenze artificiali e lavoro"

by Antonio Casilli

Dear all, Se volete passare un'ora in allegria, eccovi il video della mia lectio magistralis alle Giornate del Lavoro della CGIL (inizia a 12'45"). INTELLIGENZE ARTIFICIALI E DIGITAL LABOR https://youtu.be/MnupIrE7wdw -- Antonio A. Casilli Associate Professor, Telecom ParisTech Research Fellow, Edgar-Morin Center (EHESS) Member, Interdisciplinary Institute for Innovation (i3 UMR 9217 CNRS) Faculty Fellow, Nexa Center for Internet & Society

Sept. 20, 2017

Fwd: Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in CyberSecurity and Privacy - King's College London

by Ugo Pagallo

Ricevo e inoltro in lista... Dears, We are recruiting a Lecturer (equivalent to Assistant Professor in the US system) in CyberSecurity and Privacy at King’s College London. Please help spread the word and forward to potentially interested colleagues. Details here: https://www.hirewire.co.uk/HE/1061247/MS_JobDetails.aspx?JobID=77926 Best regards, Jose ------------------------ Dr. Jose M. Such Senior Lecturer Department of Informatics Faculty of Natural and Mathematical Sciences King's College London A: Bush House (N) 7.17 | 30 Aldwych | London WC2B 4BG <https://maps.google.com/?q=30+Aldwych+%7C+London+WC2B+4BG&entry=gmail&sourc…> E: jose.such(a)kcl.ac.uk W: http://nms.kcl.ac.uk/jose.such/

Sept. 20, 2017

La Commissione propone nuove norme per disciplinare il libero flusso di dati NON personali nell'UE

by Francesca Mauro

Per sfruttare appieno il potenziale dell'economia dei dati nell'UE, la Commissione propone una nuova serie di norme per disciplinare il libero flusso di dati non personali<http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regdoc/rep/1/2017/EN/COM-2017-495-F1-EN-MA…> nell'UE. Insieme alle disposizioni sui dati personali già in vigore, le nuove misure consentiranno l'archiviazione e l'elaborazione dei dati non personali in tutta l'Unione, per rafforzare la competitività delle imprese europee e per modernizzare i servizi pubblici nel quadro di un mercato unico europeo per i servizi di dati efficiente. L'abolizione delle restrizioni alla localizzazione dei dati è considerata, infatti, il fattore più importante per consentire all'economia dei dati di raddoppiare il proprio valore fino al 4% del PIL nel 2020. QUI di seguito il comunicato stampa http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-17-3190_it.htm BIRD & BIRD For information on the international legal practice comprising Bird & Bird LLP and its affiliated and associated businesses (together "Bird & Bird"), our offices, our members and partners, regulatory information, privacy, complaints procedure and the use of e-mail see www.twobirds.com/LN Any e-mail sent from Bird & Bird may contain information which is confidential and/or privileged. Unless you are the intended recipient, you may not disclose, copy or use it; please notify the sender immediately and delete it and any copies from your systems. You should protect your system from viruses etc.; we accept no responsibility for damage that may be caused by them. To the extent permitted by law, we may monitor electronic communications for the purposes of ensuring compliance with our legal and regulatory obligations and internal policies. We may also collect email traffic headers for analysing patterns of network traffic and managing client relationships. For further information see www.twobirds.com/LNPrivacy For the terms on which we receive from, hold for or make available to a client or third party client money see www.twobirds.com/CM Studio Legale Bird & Bird Italy is a multidisciplinary partnership formed under Italian law with offices in Italy, Via Borgogna 8, 20122 Milan and Via Flaminia, 133 - 00196 Rome - Italy. The applicable professional regulations in the Codice deontologico forense are at www.consiglionazionaleforense.it/site/home/area-avvocati/codice-deontologic…

Sept. 20, 2017

Capitalismo delle piattaforme e delle emozioni

by de petra giulio

Sperando sia di vostro interesse segnalo il seminario che si svolgerà a Roma il prossimo 5 ottobre con Lelio Demichelis. Giulio <http://www.centroriformastato.it/wp-content/uploads/logo-scd-stretto.png> Nell’ambito del progetto “Scuola Critica del digitale” il *Centro per la riforma dello Stato* organizza per *giovedì 5 ottobre*, *dalle ore 16 alle 19, in via della Dogana Vecchia 5, a Roma, *il seminario: *“Capitalismo delle piattaforme e delle emozioni”* con Lelio Demichelis Un viaggio tra *forme *e *norme* tecniche e capitalistiche di *governamentalizzazione* della vita, nel vecchio-nuovo tecno-capitalismo. Con qualche deviazione nelle *Metamorfosi *di Ovidio. *Il capitalismo sta cambiando nuovamente e in modalità tecnica, divenendo appunto tecno-capitalismo. Dove a dominare non è solo la forma-merce (anche), quanto e soprattutto la forma-tecnica, cioè il modo con cui la tecnica – intesa come apparato di apparati, oggi la rete – modella su di sé, facendone una copia conforme e congrua, la società intera e l’intera vita degli individui. A nostra insaputa, o con il nostro entusiastico consenso, perché la tecnica ci affascina, ci seduce, ci fa innamorare di sé. Forme capitalistiche e tecniche che però producono specifiche norme di organizzazione e di funzionamento sociale, ben più vincolanti di una legge.* *...** continua qui* http://www.centroriformastato.it/capitalismo-delle-piattaforme-delle-emozio…

Sept. 20, 2017

Pro Publica: "Facebook Enabled Advertisers to Reach ‘Jew Haters’"

by J.C. DE MARTIN

*Facebook Enabled Advertisers to Reach ‘Jew Haters’** * /After being contacted by ProPublica, Facebook removed several anti-Semitic ad categories and promised to improve monitoring.// / by Julia Angwin, Madeleine Varner and Ariana Tobin Sept. 14, 4 p.m. EDT Want to market Nazi memorabilia, or recruit marchers for a far-right rally? Facebook’s self-service ad-buying platform had the right audience for you. Until this week, when we asked Facebook about it, the world’s largest social network enabled advertisers to direct their pitches to the news feeds of almost 2,300 people who expressed interest in the topics of “Jew hater,” “How to burn jews,” or, “History of ‘why jews ruin the world.’” […] Continua qui: https://www.propublica.org/article/facebook-enabled-advertisers-to-reach-je…

Sept. 19, 2017